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application version. The application includes a drag and drop interface to edit a website, and

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editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.

History

* Founded in 2003 by Alex Hoyau, Pol Goasdoué and Pierre Teissière. The project is oriented towards video and cross media. * In 2005, the version v0-6 is presented at the WWDC2005 in Cupertino California. Apple is interested in Flash capacity to compete with their QuickTime plug-in. Macromedia has just been acquired by Adobe, Apple's main partner. * In 2006, the program was presented in several conferences at La Villette and won a challenge organized by Dauphine high school with INRIA - French National institute for research in computer science and control. The program at this time was mainly used for freelancers small projects. * In 2007, Silex source code officially released as open source * In 2008, Silex was among the 100 first Open Source projects on

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. Silex v1 is released. * In 2009, Silex was project of the month on SourceForge. The program was presented Silex at several French conference: Futur en Seine, Les Trophées du Libre, Pas sage en Seine, Wikiplaza * In 2010, the team members formalized their cooperation by creating a non profit organization for promotion, deployment support, and development of open source software projects related to Silex and Open Source Flash. The organization became the official maintainer of AMFPHP, a mature communautary project. * In 2012, Silex has reached the 100.000 downloads. And the team has made a dedicated version for HTML, the html5 editor, which was downloaded 1000 times on the first month. * In 2013, the team, led by Alex Hoyau started from scratch and build Silex V2 with Javascript,

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and more modern technologies than the previous version. * In 2016, Silex Labs foundation has set up a crowd funding campaign to give Silex international concern by creating a multilingual documentation and tutorials, and to create free templates to facilitate the creation of a website, and to develop a "responsive editor" to make it possible to optimize the mobile version of websites. Monday, April 27, 2020

Features

* WYSIWYG environment to edit a publication with drag and drop * HTML, CSS and Javascript code editors included * Suitable for prototyping * Web based (can be installed locally on a web server) or as a portable offline app * Free templates and plugins *File browser integration with

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, Dropbox,

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, and SFTP *Easy options for responsive element design *Easy switch between desktop and mobile view

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.silex.me/ * https://www.hostscore.net/choose/wix-alternatives/ Content management systems Web development software